definitions

[Chris Burford]

At 16:28 18/02/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Then Japan is the mother of centers and NY is the mother of the periphery.
>A better defintion would that centers are places that benefit more from
>capital that passes through it.
>
>Henry
>
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> "By definition, the center is the provider of capital, the periphery the
>> recipient." - George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, p. 120

My understanding is that from a marxist point of view, the tendency for the
concentration and  centralisation of capital is a long term tendency. I
have assumed that applies to societies and not just companies.

How could the definitions above be made more compatible with that perspective?

Chris Burford

London